Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-18
ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE.
Probably Fatal Attempt at Suicide of
Florence Grifffce.

Florence Griffice, an inmate OF Emma
Wallace's house on East Park street, took
a heavy dose of morphine last night with
suicidal intent, and though still alive as
The MINER goes to press, can only survive
by miracle. She is only about 16, and
came from Salt Lake to Butte last sum.
mer. During the winter she went to Helena
and returned few weeks ago. Sh. had
formed an attachment recently for an
actor at present residing here, and was
dependent over case OF unrequited love.
She was unable to read or write and was
as simple as a child in her ways. She went
to see poor Maude Garrison. who COM
mitted suicide 10 the Lizzie Block a little
over a week ago, and the sight of that
poor girl laid out in her coffin seemed to
make
POWERFUL IMPRESSION
on her ignorant mind. She has harped
continually since then upon how sweet a
corpse poor Maude looked and told her
suicide they would hear of. They paid no
heed to her as they supposed it was
childish freak without any serious inten-
tions behind it. But she seems to have
cherished her unhappy purpose with fatal
persstency. For several days she has
worn despondent air and has been de-
stroying all the pictures and keepsakes she
had, evidently with this tragic ending in
view. Yesterday morning she would not
get up for breakfast, but
sURREPTlTIoUsLY SENT
for one dollars worth OF morphine by g
messenger boy. She was restless and cry
ing all day and constantly going into
other girls rooms, where she would lie
down for awhile. She ate nothing that
day. About o'clock in the evening one
of the girls went into her room and noticed
she had sleepy air, and tried to persuade
her to dress. About an hour later Miss
Wallace went into the room and found her
brea thing hard. She must then have
taken about fifteen grains over an hour
before. Miss Wallace called and shook
her. She tried to arouse her, but in vain
The alarm was Immediately given, and
physicians sent for, who applied
EVERY IMAGINABLE REMEDY,
even to using powerful electric battery
without avail, She lay in lethargic
stupor on her bed, perfectly unconscious,
when the reporter saw her. At 2 O'Clock
the physicians left, saying the case was
hopeless.
few days ago she asked Miss Wallace
to write to her aunt in Salt Lake for the
parU1COIat6 OF ner DlrLn, age etc., ana was
very anxious to see the reply, which had
not yet come. At last accounts she was
still alive, but her death will, in all human
have occurred before these
lines become public.
Lynching.
VILLAS, Texas, Nay 15.-About 3
O'Clock this m corning body OF arme d men
surrounded the calabeese, where two
colored men. Andrew McGeehe and j. B.
Walker we're confined, charged with shoot
ing young Granville Powell, while he was
assisting some ladies on passenger train
evening. The mob overpowered
the guard, broke down the door and told
Walkers wife. who was present to get out.
Then they opened fire on McGeehe and
Walker, who were chained together. Five
minutes later the mob disappeared. At
daylight McGeehe was found dead in his
cell with eight bullet holes in his body.
Walker was seriously wounded in three
places, but may recover. He and his wife
were taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff
Glace, who took them to Houston to-day
Tor safe keeping.
The bondsmen Of the Orphan Girl mine
are Bennett Brothers, s. E. Larabie, E.
Congdon and s. Gates.